hello, this is bbc news. we'll take a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment but first the headlines. as the country mourns, egyptian officials say the islamic state flag was carried by gunmen who attacked a mosque in sinai which left more than 300 people dead. actress emma thompson leads a demonstration in london in support of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian woman jailed in iran. former presenterjohn leslie has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an edinburgh nightclub. the former wheel of fortune and blue peter star is alleged to have put his hand up the woman's skirt. nicola upson is my author this week. hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the associate editor of the times, anne ashworth and the playwright and writer in the new european, bonnie greer. the sunday telegraph claims that the prime minister has been has been warned by mps not to retreat from a pledge to "take back control" of british laws from brussels post brexit. the sunday times meanwhile says that a member of the labour party has died after apparently taking his own life amid allegations of sexual misconduct. the mail on sunday alleges that there are links between boris johnson and michael gove‘s bid to persuade theresa may to take a tougher stance on brexit and a russian tycoon. and finally the sunday express reports that meghan markle

is being guarded by royal protection officers as the palace prepares to announce her engagement to prince harry. let us begin our review today. the mail on sunday, it's all about michael gove and boris johnson, probably the two leading brexiteers. they wrote a letter to the prime minister secretly trying to get her to ta ke minister secretly trying to get her to take a tough stance on brexit. what is this link, alleged link with the russians? this story, it's a multi—layered story and you need to have a lot of background knowledge of who is who in think—tanks. have a lot of background knowledge of who is who in think-tanks. and a lot of music too. in order to be able to understand it. the bare bones seem to be there are the think—tanks that seem to be having a huge amount of innorwich unions on michael gove and boris johnson, notes of secret meetings. but the

institute is interesting because the people behind it who're two very rich brothers who made their money through gazprom, the big massive russian energy giant. it's alleged they have links to putin. johnson and gove wrote a letter earlier on this month to mrs may saying you have got to do this, that and the other and this story in the mail on sunday is saying, what they wanted in the letter is already happening, including £3 billion set aside in case we don't get a brexit deal.l letter that was leaked to the papers so letter that was leaked to the papers so that we all knew about it. yes. it was called, for your eyes only, gavin barwell. the chief of staff, yes. full disloads sure, like they say in america — i wrote a piece for

my paper, the new european. i used to have some sort of dealings with them a few years ago and it's an interesting place. i didn't quite know what it was about. it was at the time i was there very much interested in boris when he was mayor. they published a prosperity index which is apparently the thing they exist for so they gather this data in which they then describe who is the most prosperous. the whole thing is prosperity. any time you see prosperity in relation to brexit which david davis has used, it's the buzz word. people are starting to wonder how much it's influencing. there is some kind of rumour. there isa there is some kind of rumour. there is a big meeting out of chequers or something. people trying to figure out what it is. there is no reason

to think they're sinister, is there? well, think—tanks would like to be thought of as sinister and powerful behind—the—scenes bodies but within this story, there is a claim that one of the members of staff is already the day facto brexit czar which was one of the demands made in that. to be honest, when i heard david davis say prosperity, i went bing, bing, bing, because that is one of their buzz words. i think we are entitled and good for the mail on sunday for bringing this up. we are entitled to know a bit more. if they had that kind of inflews, it doesn't mean it's bad. wejust need to know. transparency? sure, that's all, just find out who they are. it's a good talking point. it's a good story. who are they, yes, that is all. let us move on to the sunday

times and another disturbing story as we have had a lot of claims about sexual impropyrety, a story that has been rumbling on for a few weeks —— impropriety. this is a suggestion that somebody who worked for the labour party had been accused of something and they've been suspended. it's alleged that this person worked for the labour party and has died. there are no other details. what worries me is that we are seeing these stories emerge. we don't know these stories emerge. we don't know the background to this and there seems to be no apparatus in place to deal with this, no party seems to have a proper policy on how to deal with these accusations, how to deal with these accusations, how to deal with these accusations, how to deal with the aftermath and it seems to me that it's something they need to

tackle soon because there are some politicians who still do not know what the accusations are that are being made against them. i think it's down to the leaders and the speaker to find some way to assemble this. the same things go on in america and france. it's a cultural shift. it's a very big culture, one of the biggest in my lifetime certainly, and it's happening. it's coming on and it's important that it happens. but what the politicians need to do and also businesses, they need to do and also businesses, they need to do and also businesses, they need to find a mechanism by which all of this can be gathered up, weighed up, can be understood. we don't understand it yet. fees like they are racing to catch up, doesn't it? the leaders are discussing how to make it work? they need to move faster. in the united states, there are apparently some kind of slush

fund that existed that was basically made from taxpayers' money to sort of pay. you know, we need to move this a lot faster and get some sort ofa this a lot faster and get some sort of a mechanism by which women and men who're making these accusations can come do, this and this whole thing can happen very quickly. there seem to be no guidelines as to how the system should be used. i mean, people seem to — i mean the divide between private and professional life seems to have been blurred and people are looking at things on the it systems at their work and not realising all of that will be logged and there will be consequences because people in the it department will be looking to see what is going on. it's quite shocking. i'm proud of the men and women starting to

ring the alarm bells. certainly when i was young, there was nowhere to two. you couldn't say anything. now this is all starting to come out, it's happening faster than the system is able to cope with and that's what's happening. let us move on inevitably to another story about brexit and the evening cannot go by without one or two stories about that. the sunday telegraph. whether anybody picks up a sunday paper and thinks yippee, there's a brexit story. i work in westminster normally, even in our office there may be times when that may be voiced! this is a story, another warning to theresa may as if she hasn't heard enough from people in her own party about not betraying the party over the european course which is something that many of them feelshire strongly about —— courts. slightly baffling. i thought the european court of justice slightly baffling. i thought the european court ofjustice would remain only to deal with cases of

the eu nationals after brexit. wasn't that going to be the restriction on the basis if we were able to offer that to the eu, that might be able to ease other parts. able to offer that to the eu, that might be able to ease other partslj think the problem is that you can't have a parallel court system, you can't have a parallel eu or a bunch of people who live here. brexit people are saying the hardline, get rid of the whole thing and the eu is saying, you cannot have our citizens living in your country and there are the only eu citizens who're not under eu court, that is off, it can't happen, it's not going to happen. the hardlines are saying, get this court out of the country. that's where she is. brussels has been very, very precise. there

cannot be a parallel eu, a market where there is no freedom of movement, a group of citizens in the eu who're not under the court. you make another level of eu citizenship. they don't want that. she's got to figure out how to navigate this against people say who wa nt navigate this against people say who want it all out of here. i wonder if sometimes the european court of justice doesn't get confused with the european court of human rights. it all gets confused. also i would have thought that the eu story today would have been ireland. yes. the idea that there might be in the republic an election before christmas. i wanted to read more about that. but this is a telegraph doing whistle and it's important for them to keep, for their readers to keep this kind of thing forward because ireland is extremely

complicated. so if you do... well it's not really, but if you do the bang, bang, bang about the courts, it reminds them of what the hardline brexiteers say. we'll move on from brexit. i know you are very sad about that! let's talk about productivity. this in the budget was one of the big problems with the british economy and has been for a long time. this seems to suggest there might be the answer. what is there might be the answer. what is the problem well, it's not that we don't have good enough technology, no, it's because we spend too much time at our desk looking to see if we've got a whatsapp message or a text or updating our status on facebook or going on twitter. that is what is happening, our minds are not on our work. you are distracted? yes. i get tired of people beating up yes. i get tired of people beating up on the british worker, i don't buy this at all. i think people work

very, very hard. what is going on now, we very, very hard. what is going on fiow, we are very, very hard. what is going on now, we are having a revolution in technology. a lot of things are shifting. we are having different things to indicate productivity. we don't know the answers to this yet. i think people work very, very hard andl i think people work very, very hard and i wish that we had a system whereby the new technology can be sort of measured up and captured. the system is not up to snuff yet. people work hard. that is wrong. the system is not up to snuff yet. people work hard. that is wrongm is quite interesting, there isjust this whole kind of mystery as to why oui’ this whole kind of mystery as to why our productivity remains low. this whole kind of mystery as to why our productivity remains lowlj think the measure isn't there yet andl think the measure isn't there yet and i would love to see someone, some science geek or whatever come up some science geek or whatever come up witha some science geek or whatever come up with a way to measure how people are working because i think they are working very hard. i wonder if we have become a look—down society. you know when you are on the train, the tube in the morning, you want to say, take your eyes off that phone and see the world. talk to the

person next to you! yes. i wonder whether this is a broader problem, maybe it's stopping collaboration at work. i think we need to look at productivity... it's no more different than paris or new york. i think people shouldn't do this. this isa think people shouldn't do this. this is a lot more complicated. let us move on because we can't end without a royal story. engagement expected any day. theresa may cleared her diary on thursday because it was expected to happen and it hasn't. americans would have killed her if that news came out on thanksgiving. that is why! yes, that is what happened. she's american, there is no way that this was twoing to happen on thanksgiving. you mean they've all got too much to do, to eat? no, this is a down news day. if this came out on a down news day, this came out on a down news day, this country would never have been

forgiven so i think they pushed it. that is what happened. it will give the nation's spirit a lift. i'm quite excited about it. i'll want to read the details and i'll get excited about the dress. i think it's what we need. also, she is going to be a new spirit in the royal family. i do really think that we are looking at the moment for things to... this will be the one we like. we like this guy. we like harry. we like this guy. we like harry. we like a good news story. every country needs the lift. we must leave it there now. that is it